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Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements
For purposes of this Annual Report, the terms “Oracle,” “we,” “us” and “our” refer to Oracle Corporation and its
consolidated subsidiaries. This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains statements that are not historical in nature,
are predictive in nature, or that depend upon or refer to future events or conditions or contain forward-looking
statements within the meaning of Section 21 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These include, among other things, statements regarding:
• our expectation to continue to acquire companies, products, services and technologies;
• our intention that our direct sales force will sell proportionately more of our hardware systems products
in the future;
• continued realization of gains or losses with respect to our foreign currency exposures;
• our expectation that our software business’ total revenues generally will continue to increase;
• our belief that software license updates and product support revenues and margins will grow;
• our expectation that our hardware business will have lower operating margins as a percentage of
revenues than our software business;
• our international operations providing a significant portion of our total revenues and expenses;
• our expectation to continue to innovate and invest in Java technology;
• our expectation to continue to make significant investments in research and development and related
product opportunities, including those related to hardware products and services;
• our expectation to grow our consulting revenues;
• the sufficiency of our sources of funding for acquisitions or other matters;
• our belief that we have adequately provided for any reasonably foreseeable outcomes related to our tax
audits and that any settlement will not have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial
position or results of operations;
• our expectation to continue paying comparable cash dividends on a quarterly basis;
• our expectation that seasonal trends will continue in fiscal 2013;
• our expectation to continue to depend on third party manufacturers to build certain hardware systems
products and third party logistics providers to deliver our products;
• our expectation that to the extent customers renew support contracts or cloud software subscription
contracts, we will recognize revenues for the full contracts’ values over the respective renewal periods;
as well as other statements regarding our future operations, financial condition and prospects, and business
strategies. Forward-looking statements may be preceded by, followed by or include the words “expects,”
“anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” “will,” “is designed to” and similar
expressions. We claim the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 for all forward-looking statements. We have based these forward-
looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking
statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions about our business that could affect our future
results and could cause those results or other outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the
forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not
limited to, those discussed in “Risk Factors” included elsewhere in this Annual Report and as may be updated in
filings we make from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC), including the
Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q to be filed by us in our fiscal year 2013, which runs from June 1, 2012 to
May 31, 2013.
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